Peregrine landing site

You can pay to have your ashes buried on the moon. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

Illustration of a metallic lander landing on the moon. When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more than just $108 million worth of development and equipment was at risk. The agency earned the ire of Native American Navajo people, who proposed halting the launch… Read More »

What science can he do?

On Monday, January 8, the first dedicated American lunar spacecraft, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander, successfully launched from Florida on the first mission of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. Peregrine is scheduled to reach the lunar surface on February 23, but it’s unclear whether that will happen: The lander experienced an anomaly shortly after deploying from… Read More »